UCLouvain BELGIUM
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Yaroslav Filinchuk studied Chemistry at Lviv National University (Ukraine) and received PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2002. He joined the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2000, where he begun to work on metal hydrides with Prof. Klaus Yvon. In 2006-2010 he worked at the Swiss-Norwegian Beam Lines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France). Since 2011 he is a professor of structural chemistry at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He received ESRF young scientist award in 2010 and published about 280 papers (h index 66 in Scopus, 75 in google scholar).

His research interests include chemistry of hydrogen-rich solids, in particular for hydrogen storage, solid-state electrolytes, porous materials, and various applications of crystallography in materials science. The main experimental techniques are in situ diffraction, as well as volumetric and thermal methods to characterize gas adsorption and stability of materials. In the recent years, his research has been expanding towards porous materials (MOFs, porous hydrides) and their interaction with various gas species.

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

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Prof Megan O'Mara is a Professor at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland.

Her research combines molecular simulation and biophysics to understand membrane proteins and drug interactions, advancing knowledge that supports the development of new therapeutics and improved human health.

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

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PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE (PSI), SWITZERLAND

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Dr May Sharpe is Group Leader of the MX Samples Group at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland. She leads the protein crystallisation and sample delivery program supporting macromolecular crystallography at the Swiss Light Source and SwissFEL. Her research focuses on protein crystallisation, fragment screening and developing innovative sample delivery methods for synchrotron and X-ray free-electron laser experiments.

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY

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GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY

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University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience

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Dr. Rosemary Cater is a Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience in Australia. She fulfilled her Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Renae Ryan at the University of Sydney, where she used electrophysiology and x-ray protein crystallography to understand how glutamate transporters serve a secondary function as chloride channels. She then went on to complete her post-doctoral training in the lab of Prof. Filippo Mancia at Columbia University, where she used single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and antigen-binding technology to determine structures of small membrane proteins. The overarching goal of the Cater Lab is to understand the molecular mechanisms of nutrient transport at the blood-brain barrier, and how variations to this are implicated in different diseases states.

Dr Cater is a current ARC DECRA Fellow, and has received several prestigious awards and fellowships, for her research including the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Regional Award (2022) and the Eppendorf & Science Journal Award for Neurobiology (2024).

University of Technology Sydney

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Dr Frederick Marlton is a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). After completing his Science and Engineering degrees from the Australian National University, he moved to Sydney to complete a PhD at the UNSW with Prof. John Daniels. He then conducted postdocs at Aarhus University with Dr Mads Jorgensen (MAX IV) and the University of Sydney with Profs Chris Ling and Brendan Kennedy. After a brief stint in consulting at Hypercube Scientific, optimising train networks for iron-ore mining, he started his fellowship at UTS in 2023. The focus of Fred’s research is structure property relationships in functional metal-oxide materials. Specifically, he specialises in understanding the local structure via neutron and X-ray pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. This has been applied to a variety of interesting materials, such as perovskite ferroelectrics, scheelite photocatalysts and pyrochlore ionic conductors. In 2024 he was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University for 6 months, working with Prof. Hemamala Karunadasa on halide perovskites.

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology

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Associate Professor Nadia Zatsepin is an ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology. She is an internationally recognised expert in serial crystallography, developing methods for determining atomic-resolution biomolecular structures under near-physiological conditions. Her research spans X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), synchrotron science, instrumentation, software development and experimental design, with applications in understanding the structure and dynamics of proteins and other macromolecules. Following a PhD at Monash University, she held research appointments at Arizona State University and La Trobe University before joining Swinburne. Her work has contributed to major advances in XFEL and synchrotron serial crystallography and their applications to structural biology.